Wow they are some serious protesters,see em attacking the police like that....

What i find interesting as well is that the recent riots we saw in the U.S the protesters did nothing like what we are seeing here imagine what the
response would have been,we are led to believe China cracks down harder on their citizens worse than say a free western country...hmmmmm

Because China only got control of Hong Kong back from the British in 1997, after decades of the area being under British rule after the Opium wars,
and under Japanese control during part of the Second World War, at which time control went back to the British, the people of Hong Kong would never
have accepted the sort of totalitarianism that is practiced by the rest of China. They had grown accustomed to certain freedoms, and would not have
accepted Chinese mainland brand authoritarian control.

Part of the hand over agreement, was that trade and administration, as well as public order, would always be a matter largely for the leaders of the
autonomous region, rather than being under the sole control of the main Chinese leadership. Essentially, while remaining linked to China in terms of
national ties, and other purely notional aspects involving borders and whatnot, Hong Kong is pretty close to being its own little thing, unto itself.
It is not ruled the same way as the rest of China. If this happened on the mainland, this rioting, hundreds would have been shot right then and there.

Wow they are some serious protesters,see em attacking the police like that....

What i find interesting as well is that the recent riots we saw in the U.S the protesters did nothing like what we are seeing here imagine what the
response would have been,we are led to believe China cracks down harder on their citizens worse than say a free western country...hmmmmm

This is Hong Kong. Not china mainland.

The tactical police are out now and things are normal.
Hawkers and people are out again.

The people there don't give a crap, they just want to make a buck and have fun.

Ah yes thanks for clearing that up, for some reason i thought there were riots in China too...I thought that Hong Kong was under a similar rule to
china when it was returned from the British empire....clearly i am confused...

It's a confusing situation. I cannot think of any place in the world, where one part of a nation is ruled so differently than the rest, as Hong Kong
is to the rest of China. The handover process was designed to allow Hong Kong to be a bridging point for commerce between the Chinese and the rest of
the world. But the crafting of the hand over agreement did not stop at that. By installing a chief executive with various powers over the way of
things there in Hong Kong, the Chinese central government were able to attain the region back from Britian, both without loss of face, and without
having to send in troops to quell inevitable mass dissent on the part of angry Hong Kong residents, in the event of the central government trying to
insert its methodology into Hong Kong.

If the Chinese had taken control of Hong Kong with the same rigidity as they apply to the rest, it would have been a bloodbath, with gangsters,
political factions, and bog standard anarchism thrown into the mix, one which might have lasted decades. Although it no doubt aggravated the
leadership of China at the time to have to dial back and curtail their normal policy regarding order and commerce, I am sure that even the staunchest
of their company men would attest these days, that the way it was handled was the best compromise available at the time, albeit a strange one!

Wow they are some serious protesters,see em attacking the police like that....

What i find interesting as well is that the recent riots we saw in the U.S the protesters did nothing like what we are seeing here imagine what the
response would have been,we are led to believe China cracks down harder on their citizens worse than say a free western country...hmmmmm

They do, in Mainland China. They have limited recourse. Hong Kong is different and still has been wanting a greater say as of late, and China has been
resistant.

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